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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • My grandmother got cochlear implants for both ears after she became unable to hear. She loved that she was able to talk to people again. She said that listening to music wasn’t as good as she remembered, but it was better than what she had. I don’t think the garbling sound ever disappeared.

    Do what feels right. If you don’t get it now, you can always get it later.


  • I feel like this is the best approach. An ally is an ally. If they have weird, socially unacceptable, or poorly thought out ideas, but they

    1. aren’t acting on them,
    2. don’t promote them,
    3. still act in good faith on issues we have in common,

    then they’re fine for the stuff we care about. The right has built a big tent because they understand this. We’re only holding ourselves back by subjecting each other to purity tests.

    As always, there are limits, but generally we need to build more coalitions.